GNS Adds night vision to aftermath of market mortar attack

(28 Sep 2003) ++NIGHT SHOTS, VIDEO QUALITY AS INCOMING++ Baqouba, North of Baghdad, 25 September 2003: 1. Wide of trucks passing US soldiers on foot patrol 2. Truck passing US soldier 3. US soldiers checking inside truck 4. American soldier looking on 5. UPSOUND of mortar explosion, two US soldiers standing by 6. Flare in the sky Baqouba, North of Baghdad, 26 September 2003 7. Wide of square full of civilians 8. Crater caused by mortar 9. US military standing by 10. US military checking impact of blast 11. Civilians show shattered glass of damaged shop 12. US military vehicle Baqouba US military base, North of Baghdad, 26 September 2003 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel William Adamson, Second Brigade Command, Fourth Infantry Division: "Yesterday evening around 10 o'clock we heard an explosion near the camp, I sent my military police out to investigate. When we arrived at the scene at five minutes after nine, there were Iraqi police at the scene evacuating wounded civilians. As part of our investigation, we identified a 120 millimetre mortar impacted at a traffic circle, a Russian made mortar, killing initially eight people, wounding 18. Today we were told that one of the injured also died, raising our total to nine killed in action." 14. US military talking and taking notes from civilians 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel William Adamson, Second Brigade Command, Fourth Infantry Division: "It appears that this was an Iraqi action that was more than likely directed at our civil military operation centre which was 300 metres to the south of the impact point and it obviously didn't make it, the flight path the way it was intended. All the damage was done to Iraqi innocent civilians." 16. Wide of hospital 17. Various of wounded civilians STORYLINE: A mortar blast tore through a market in Baqouba north of Baghdad, killing nine civilians and injuring more than a dozen others, Iraqi police said on Friday. The US military said soldiers stationed nearby were probably the target. The mortar round exploded about 9 p.m. (local time) on Thursday at a market in the Sunni Muslim city about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Baghdad. Soldiers from the 4th infantry division in Baqouba were on a routine patrol in the area when they heard an explosion. The US commander of the second brigade of the 4th infantry division said a Russian made 120 mm mortar impacted at a market 300 meters to the south of their command centre. Iraqi Police General Waleed Khalid said nine civilians died and 15 were wounded. US officials put the number of injured at 18. Khalid described the attack as a "criminal act aimed at hurting Iraqi civilians." Around 20 US soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were at the blast site on Friday, providing security and assisting Iraqi police in the investigation. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...